Stephen Owen (politician)
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The Honourable Stephen Owen PC |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Vancouver Quadra |
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In office November 27, 2000 – July 27, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Ted McWhinney |
| Succeeded by | Joyce Murray |
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September 8, 1948 Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Diane Owen |
| Residence | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Profession | Lawyer, Professor |
Stephen Owen, PC, QC, (born September 8, 1948) is a Canadian administrator and politician Owen was the Vice-President of External, Legal and Community Relations for the University of British Columbia.
Owen was the Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Vancouver Quadra, encompassing the western end of the City of Vancouver. He was a member of Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberal government, serving in cabinet as Canada's tenth Minister of Western Economic Diversification and as Minister of State for Sport.
Owen received LL.M. from University College London/University of London in 1974. He received MBA from the International Management Institute, University of Geneva in 1986, and J.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1972.
During the 1980s, Owen worked for the government of British Columbia as a non-partisan official. He served as that province's ombudsman from 1986 to 1992, and as Commissioner for the ground-breaking Commission on Resources and Environment, which pioneered the province's multi-stakeholder land-use planning approach from 1992 to 1995. Subsequently Owen was the Deputy Attorney General for B.C. and, then, the David Lam Professor of Law & Public Policy, and Director, Institute for Dispute Resolution, University of Victoria (1997–2000) He is also the past commissioner and vice-president of the Law Commission of Canada. His cousin, Philip Owen, is a former mayor of Vancouver.
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